Money Money Money Money Money

So much of everything wrong comes form money in the fabricated society of modern man.  People work their wholes lives to get 'enough.'  They work hard jobs without much vacation or they work easy jobs because they are enjoyable.  Some people make a LOT of money doing their 'work' and some people make very little doing their 'work.'  Quite possibly, the difficulty of the work does not greatly influence the amount of money that you get for doing it.  A bank CEO or something makes hundreds of times more money yet still lives within a 24 hour day, working, sleeping, eating, spending time with their family (maybe).  So many people work the same hours have a 24 hour day and make so much less.  What is the deal!?  It all seems so void of real meaning and it doesn't make any sense.  Where does money come from?  Why are some making so much more?  Banks are literally just making up money, pulling numbers out of thing air.  "Intrest?" Please!  What a scam. 

Some great people I know are in massive amounts of debt and may never get out of it because of interest.  They are great people and because they wanted an education they are now slaves to the system for their whole lives, or for a good portion of them.

Whenever I mention not wanting my money in banks or in the system, people just NEVER GET where I'm coming from.  

"I don't want my money in banks." 

"What?  Why would you ever take money out of the bank?  You wont earn any interest?  You could invest wisely and make more money!"  

"No, I don't want to put my money into a system that holds the poor down and elevates the rich few. PLUS why would I give my money to someone/some company that I don't trust, to make me more free money?"

"Did you just say that you DON'T want free money?"

"Yes, I don't want free money.  I don't want any money!"

I like to think of money as work-karma.  I get these karma points (dollars) for working to better society and I can do with those points as whatever I want.  I can eat fancy foods, sleep in a safe place, access the internet, and all the things of life.  The problem is that what a lot of things people do to earn these karma points does not better society.  These people still get the karma points and can drive cars, eat fancy food, sleep in a safe place.  In fact, as mentioned above, some people do harm to the world and still earn the karma points.  So I need to give up my idealistic view of money, basically.

Society is not built for people, it's built for money.  Money is the motivator, not people.  Why is our planet being trashed? Money.  Look out your window, find anything.  Why is it there?  Because of money.  It is cheaper, it's more cost effective, it's increasing the revenue stream, it's on sale, it's so they don't get sued.

Isn't there a group of people who can just live without using money?  Looking Backwards, The Dispossessed, both books with non-money societies.

If I'm going to be the best human that I can be, how can I be using money?  Animals don't use money.  Even socially based animals don't use money.  What would humanity look like without money?

It's hard right now for me to think about this any more and I feel like I still have not broken through.  More to come hopefully.